Official: Bomb kills 13-year-old girl in Pakistan

People look at the lifeless bodies of victims shot by gunmen at a local hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. Dozens of gunmen disguised in police uniforms shot to death more than a dozen they pulled off of a convoy of buses in southwest Pakistan and dumped their bodies in a nearby r

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People look at the lifeless bodies of victims shot by gunmen at a local hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. Dozens of gunmen disguised in police uniforms shot to death more than a dozen they pulled off of a convoy of buses in southwest Pakistan and dumped their bodies in a nearby ravine, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

People look at the lifeless bodies of victims shot by gunmen at a local hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. Dozens of gunmen disguised in police uniforms shot to death more than a dozen they pulled off of a convoy of buses in southwest Pakistan and dumped their bodies in a nearby ravine, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt) (/ AP)

The Associated Press

A government official says a bomb planted outside a shopping center in southwestern Pakistan has killed a 13-year-old girl and wounded over 20 people.

Shafqat Anwar says the blast occurred on Wednesday in Mastung district, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. Anwar is the assistant commissioner of Mastung.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Baluchistan is home to both Islamic militants and separatists who have been waging a low-level insurgency against the government for decades.

On Monday, suspected separatists killed 13 people they abducted from buses in the province, as well as a paramilitary soldier.